Being a good leader is more than just being able to manage your employees or having better skills than your subordinates. Oftentimes leaders arenít very skillful or very smart, but they earn respect from their underlings and therefore earn their cooperation. Being a good leader entails responsibility and willingness, not just skill and intelligence.

Change Management is a lot like heart surgery ? the surgeon must keep the patient alive while the surgery is under way. Likewise, change managers must maintain the business at the very time they are engaged in changing that business. Many initiatives fail to appreciate the need for this dual perspective ? at their peril!

Having a vison others buy into leads to success

How can music mogul Michael Jackson, a main stay in the music industry for decades and known to be one of the most successful artists in history go bankrupt? Advice to Michael and the masses on how to avoid bankruptcy court.

While watching last night's game, it struck me how similar the playoff mentality is to how we should be conducting our businesses, and what we can learn as business owners from our hockey addiction!

Bring back spirit in the workplace and you'll bring back profits

The value of charisma as a business asset has to do with how well you influence others by connecting with them. These four components of charisma can be developed by anyone.

In our businesses we must do the same if we wish to achieve success. By this I mean making a significant contribution of value, going above and beyond the call of duty, and thinking beyond the monetary rewards at the end.

Six Sigma Training ? A step-by-step guide to choosing the right provider for you!

For companies to thrive in today?s world of continuous change they must be continuously changing. If so, then change becomes a process constantly at work - just like any other business process they practice. And process improvement techniques - like Lean Manufacture - can be used to get really good at it.